What Ben Rhodes has said about Second inauguration of Donald Trump
1 quote · 1 episode · May 31, 2026
Ben Rhodes, Former Obama speechwriter and deputy national security adviser, Crooked Media co-host and author of "All We Say", has been quoted on Second inauguration of Donald Trump once in 1 episode of Pod Save America, most recently on May 31, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
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Rhodes argued Trump's radicalism lies in rejecting the constitutional framework rather than in his xenophobia or populism.
“The radicalism of Trump is not in the underlying xenophobia or populism. It's in putting that in service of someone who believes not in the constitutional framework”
Pod Save America: What Does it Mean to Be an American? (May 31, 2026) · Listen from 1:14:02
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What Does it Mean to Be an American?Pod Save America · May 31, 2026 · 1 h 20 min
Jon Favreau talks with Ben Rhodes about his book "All We Say," tracing the 250-year argument over American identity through fifteen consequential speeches.
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